Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México ISSN: 0366-2128
[email protected] Sociedad Botánica de México México MEAVE, JORGE A.; ROMERO-ROMERO, MARCO A.; VALLE-DOMÉNECH, ANDRÉS; RINCÓN- GUTIÉRREZ, ARMANDO; MARTÍNEZ, ESTEBAN; RAMOS, CLARA H. Plant diversity assessment in the Yaxchilán Natural Monument, Chiapas, México Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México, núm. 83, 2008, pp. 53-76 Sociedad Botánica de México Distrito Federal, México Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57711109005 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Bol.Soc.Bot.Méx. 83: 53-76 (2008) TAXONOMÍA Y FLORÍSTICA PLANT DIVERSITY ASSESSMENT IN THE Y AXCHILÁN NATURAL MONUMENT, CHIAPAS, MEXICO JORGE A. MEAVE1, 4, MARCO A. ROMERO-ROMERO1, ANDRÉS V ALLE-DOMÉNECH1, 2, ARMANDO RINCÓN-GUTIÉRREZ1, ESTEBAN MARTÍNEZ3 AND CLARA H. RAMOS3 1Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México 04510, D.F., México. 2Present address: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Villahermosa, Villahermosa, Tabasco, México. 3Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México 04510, D.F, México. 4Author for correspondence. E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract: We assessed the diversity of vascular plants in the Yaxchilán Natural Monument, a nature protection area located in Chi- apas State, southern Mexico. A checklist including 547 species (337 genera, 102 families) was produced by combining information derived from three sources: (1) an initial list derived from an ecological study on forest structure; (2) a systematic survey conducted over an 18-month period; and (3) an extra visit to the site as part of a more ambitious project covering the entire Lacandon rain forest region.